Overseas flights fall at Los Angeles airport

Air India will withdraw its three weekly round-trip flights from Los Angeles International Airport in September, signaling a trend that finds more overseas carriers cutting service amid record-high fuel prices.
Tuesday's announcement comes as international air carriers are expected to slash 213 weekly takeoffs and landings at LAX by November, an 11 percent drop compared to the same period last year.
As a result, 33,452 fewer seats will be available to airline passengers each week by late fall, an 8.4 percent drop from last year, according to data provided by Atlanta-based Innovata, an airline scheduling database.
"It's going to be even more than that as we move closer to fall," said Frank Clark, head of LAXTEC Corp., the agency that represents carriers in the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX.
The figures do not take into account Air India's plan to cut six weekly takeoffs and landings aboard Boeing 747-400 jetliners between LAX and Frankfurt, with connecting flights to New Delhi and Mumbai.
"Air India's flights out of LAX were light, they were not daily and they competed with nonstop service to India out of San Francisco, so this was not much of a surprise," said Gina Marie Lindsey, executive director of Los Angeles World Airports, the agency that operates LAX.
12/08/08 Art Marroquin/Daily Breeze, USA

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